Alumni Profiles

Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.

Preserving the History of Jim Crow Era Safe Havens

Architectural historian Catherine Zipf is building a database of Green Book sites.  

by Lydialyle Gibson

Slow and Steady Wins the Pulitzer

David Fahrenthold ’00 will continue to hold President Trump accountable. 

by Oset Babür

Yale School of Drama dean James Bundy

A look at James Bundy ’81, dean of the Yale School of Drama

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard exhibition designer Justin Lee, profiled

Justin Lee's essential, “invisible,” work at the Harvard Art Museums

by Lily Scherlis

Susan Cain foments the "Quiet Revolution."

Susan Cain foments the “Quiet Revolution.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brief life of Henry Knowles Beecher, anesthetist and late-blooming ethicist

Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976

by Jack El-Hai

Justice Stephen Breyer is profiled by Lincoln Caplan

The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer

by Lincoln Caplan

Documentarian Kent Garrett reflects on how “Black Journal” broke down barriers

How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential

by Sophia Nguyen

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The future of work and the sharing economy

Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova